Andy Borowitz Talks to David Remnick About the R.N.C.
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2016
⏱️ 10 minutes
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A satirical news columnist who makes up almost everything reviews an event stranger than fiction.
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| 1:11.6 | I'm Dorothy Wickenden on today today's Politics and More podcast, David Remnick talks with |
| 1:16.9 | Andy Borowitz, the writer of the New Yorker's satirical news column, The Borowitz Report. |
| 1:22.9 | Borowitz is an authority on the outrageous side of the news, but even he was surprised by last week's |
| 1:28.4 | Republican convention. |
| 1:30.2 | When all was said and done late on Thursday night, after Donald Trump's speech, I called up |
| 1:36.0 | America's leading political commentator, a man of great probity, the author of the Borowitz |
| 1:41.6 | report, my colleague and friend Andy Borowitz. |
| 1:44.7 | Well, it completely ruined my theory of the convention that I was starting to assemble. |
| 1:49.7 | Can I share that with you? |
| 1:50.7 | Please. |
| 1:51.4 | Well, I had this theory that, you know, while the press was saying that the convention was a train rack with, you know, Melania, quoting Michelle Obama and Rudy Giuliani just seeming to have some sort of chemical imbalance. |
| 2:05.4 | I thought what they were setting us up for was that tonight we would see a Donald Trump who was subdued and presidential and would seem so much more normal than everything we had seen up to that point. |
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